Robinson v. Bibb’s Empirical Analysis
840 F.2d 349 · 1988
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Poe v. Haydon (1988), Russo v. City of Cincinnati (1992)
36 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Tennessee v. Garner · Wood v. Strickland · Procunier v. Navarette · Russell v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] clearly established right is one recognized by either the highest state court in the state where the case arose, a United States Court of Appeals, or the United States Supreme Court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ha[s] a right not to be shot unless he was perceived to pose a threat to the pursuing officers or to others[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'knew [n]or reasonably should have known that the action he took within his sphere of official responsibility would violate the constitutional rights ... affected, or ... took action with the malicious intention to cause a deprivation of a constitutional right....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.